The last tweet from the co-inventor of the mRNA vaccine technology before he was banned
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Yes, like having beagles faces eaten by sand flies. Or selling chimera virus bats on the black market in China. You know, wholesome science.
Part of me thinks that these sickos want to do these types of research just to satisfy their perverted desires, no real soyence happening.
The type of person who gets into these positions absolutely wants to torture innocent creatures and then brag about it
I would go further than this...
I've studied zoology. You are literally taught to ignore your ethical misgivings, about live animal experimentation, and treat your experimental animals as "disposable"...
I'm not sure that people who haven't been exposed to that environment quite get it... And it's even worse for Med students, for whom... Live vertebrate experimentation is EVEN MORE common...
The university "environment", at least in STEM, teaches you that the ends ALWAYS justify the means, and "animals are suffering and dying in factory farms anyway, so WHO CARES what we do to a few domesticated specimens?"
It's really, really bad. From experience.
You either burn out, or you become an emotionless drone, who doesn't even think about the consequences of what you are doing for the poor sentient beings you are experimenting on... :-(
I completed undergrad and med school and never participated in a lab with live animals.
I dissected dead frogs and sharks and fetal pigs.
I dissected a few human cadavers.
Never came across anything alive or unethical.
Sad representation of our sick society as a whole as well.
A lot of "researchers" are so far removed from reality they no longer actually care about practical applications or morality. They simply crave data, even if its useless data to anyone but their little circle jerk.
Almost any college program has one per field working there. Some are even self aware enough to own up to it.
It's worth noting that for the experiment on thee beagle pups, one of the objections to that experiment was that it'd didn't - couldn't - provide any useful data that was relevant to the stated purpose of the experiment.
So some dude but puppies in such distress that they had to sever their vocal chords for literally no reason